HN Top Links - Popular Stories from Hacker News

1231.

How Japan Plans to Build an Orbital Solar Farm (spectrum.ieee.org)

63 points by austinz on Apr 24, 2014 | 76 comments

1232.

Piketty’s Capital in a Nutshell (openculture.com)

63 points by arnauddri on Apr 28, 2014 | 66 comments

1233.

Mozilla is not Chik-Fil-A (benmoskowitz.com)

63 points by ultimatedelman on Apr 4, 2014 | 64 comments

1234.

How Mike Judge and Co. Are Turning "Silicon Valley" Into the Next "Spinal Tap" (motherjones.com)

63 points by morkbot on Apr 9, 2014 | 63 comments

1235.

Ask HN: Negative OpenSSL sentiments

63 points by aggresswift on Apr 12, 2014 | 48 comments

1236.

Wikipedia Redesign Concept (wikipedia.gkvasnikov.com)

63 points by vikram360 on Apr 27, 2014 | 47 comments

1237.

Powdered Alcohol (bevlaw.com)

63 points by pwg on Apr 20, 2014 | 46 comments

1238.

Wait, WUT? (x.naveen.com)

63 points by socmoth on Apr 22, 2014 | 43 comments

1239.

Why is Kim Jong-un always surrounded by people taking notes? (bbc.com)

63 points by weavie on Apr 25, 2014 | 41 comments

1240.

Omaha: Software installer and auto-updater for Windows (code.google.com)

63 points by wiradikusuma on Apr 14, 2014 | 33 comments

1241.

A micro compiler in Ocaml (troydm.github.io)

63 points by joaobatalha on Apr 1, 2014 | 22 comments

1242.

Has the NSA Been Using the Heartbleed Bug? (wired.com)

63 points by ryutin on Apr 10, 2014 | 22 comments

1243.

Piston X86-64 Assembler working in web browser and Node.js (pasm.pis.to)

63 points by Sami_Lehtinen on Apr 17, 2014 | 20 comments

1244.

Speeding Up Your Engineering Org, Part I: Beyond the Cost Center Mentality (blog.hut8labs.com)

63 points by ojrac on Apr 29, 2014 | 14 comments

1245.

How to not get ripped off by High Frequency Traders (chrisstucchio.com)

62 points by keveman on Apr 3, 2014 | 148 comments

1246.

HN: I was fired today, is this even legal?

62 points by wturner on Apr 9, 2014 | 103 comments

1247.

Suburbs Try to Prevent an Exodus as Young Adults Move to Cities and Stay (nytimes.com)

62 points by luu on Apr 17, 2014 | 97 comments

1248.

Daniel's review of Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (amazon.com)

62 points by wglb on Apr 13, 2014 | 71 comments

1249.

HFT Quote Stuffing is a software bug (chrisstucchio.com)

62 points by jpdus on Apr 22, 2014 | 63 comments

1250.

OpenBSD forks, prunes, fixes OpenSSL (zdnet.com)

62 points by zorked on Apr 21, 2014 | 57 comments

1251.

What you’d need to make in every county in the US to afford a decent one-bedroom (washingtonpost.com)

62 points by Libertatea on Apr 22, 2014 | 54 comments

1252.

My experience at a coworking space in Osaka, Japan (whosbacon.com)

62 points by whosbacon on Apr 9, 2014 | 36 comments

1253.

Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel (livescience.com)

62 points by velodrome on Apr 30, 2014 | 27 comments

1254.

My heart is ok, but my eyes are bleeding (blog.leafsr.com)

62 points by tptacek on Apr 11, 2014 | 26 comments

1255.

A/B Testing Significance Calculator (jeffpickhardt.com)

62 points by bvanvugt on Apr 4, 2014 | 24 comments

1256.

The strange truth about fiction (facebook.com)

62 points by friggeri on Apr 29, 2014 | 21 comments

1257.

Inactive Account Manager (google.com)

62 points by adamrmcd on Apr 24, 2014 | 18 comments

1258.

Is this what it’s supposed to feel like? One Year Later (blog.42floors.com)

62 points by jaf12duke on Apr 26, 2014 | 18 comments

1259.

YC emails are sent

61 points by zekenie on Apr 16, 2014 | 80 comments

1260.

Why I Went From Python To Go (and not Node.js) (2012) (jordanorelli.com)

61 points by krat0sprakhar on Apr 16, 2014 | 71 comments